 I felt as an introduction to the town of Davis, the best place to start would be with an interview with a mayor and Evans. And what do you feel are the unique features about Davis that make it a wonderful place to live? Well, Lori, we've had a progressive leadership in Davis for over a decade now, which has introduced bicycle transportation, energy conservation features, cooperatives, and that's made a large difference in people's daily lives, roadside recycling. So we also have a town where we have very educated people. In fact, we're the third most educated in the country. And that increases people's receptivity to these new ideas, to innovation. And I think our geography makes a big difference. Aside from being just a valley town, we are not contiguous to any other urban area. And so we have been forced to have our own identity and our own history. And that's made us a stronger in character as a town. That's terrific. What do you hope to accomplish in your term as mayor? Well, I think people like Davis pretty much the way it is. And so first and foremost, my goal would be to preserve the qualities of our small town atmosphere, which people enjoy. But I'd like to do some innovation in economic development with our small, locally owned businesses. And I'd like to really concentrate on creating affordable housing opportunities for people here in town. That's a problem we haven't yet solved. And one which is a challenge ahead of us as people need to find cheaper places to live. That's very true. Looking ahead, I know you were instrumental in setting up the Davis 2000 Committee to plan what Davis might be like in the year 2000. How do you see Davis in the year 2000? Well, maintaining our strong city services. We have excellent police and fire. And I'd like to make sure that citizens get that high quality service regardless what decade we're in. But I think it's important also that we have a healthy, strong downtown. Well we have this video to do, guys. Does anyone have any ideas? Well actually, I did come prepared. I have an idea. My husband is a sociologist and he's doing an energy study on appliances. And one of the things that's really been fascinating is the study on refrigerators. He goes in and he looks at people's refrigerators and they talk about what's inside and they open the door. How many times do they open the door? And they make meaning out of what's inside of the refrigerator and the character of the people who own the refrigerators. I don't know how it would lend itself to video but I think it would be really neat if we could get into people's houses video their refrigerators and then interview them about it. What do you think? That's interesting. But what if we can't get any remote equipment that kind of concerns me? I had an idea. What if we do kind of a funny bit on like a day in the life of the chancellor? With all the funny things that happen to the union business and the teachers go on strike and there are no books in the library. We could make it funny. How's that funny? I don't know. It's sort of a cliche to me. I get kind of bored with Davis. Well, do you have an idea? Yeah, I have an idea. I think we ought to do a rock video and I have a song that would be perfect for that. It's called The New Mona Lisa and the audio is all done. It's been professionally recorded and you know it'll have a lot of scenes in Davis and you know it does utilize remote equipment but I think it'd be really creative and really anything to do. And if it's good enough it could end up on MTV basement tapes or something like that. It has a lot of vignettes so we could all be director, producer, talent. Well, yeah. The first thing you have to do is hear it though. I mean, if you're interested. I'd be willing to go listen to it. Sure. What about this weekend? Okay, we came up on the wrong camera. Okay, go. Hi there. How's it going? How's your weekend? Yeah, how was your weekend? Just great. Good chance to see the song. Yeah. Hear it, listen. What do you think? Oh God, I thought it was great. I thought it would really give us a lot of practice, you know, to do a lot of the vignettes. You know, to be perfectly honest, I really had a lot of reservations. It was just too rock for me but you know what, I had reservations and I called Tom and he said that he's willing to be flexible. He's willing to open it up again so we could look at alternatives because I just have some reservations. I don't know. Well, then we should talk about it because everybody's doing a class and we should all agree on what we want to do. Let's talk this one. Oh, great. Hi guys. How are you doing? Hi. Look, Lori was just telling me that she had some reservations that she expressed to you about the vignette video and I also wanted to know if you checked out cost. Yeah, I did. It would cost probably $200 which would be $50 a piece but great results. Kind of expensive I think. I'm sort of on a limited budget and I don't know if I can handle that. You know, I've got an idea that I was thinking about doing a performance idea and it's utilizing eggshells and street scenes and it would have film projection and there would be people coming up and handing trash cans in front of the film and that's sort of art creative type of... Eggshells and... Is that for sound? No, it's to create texture and... I don't know if I could believe this. What's going on here? I don't know if I could believe it. The eggshells and... Look, how about doing something? I'd still like to do something really based on Davis. What about a newscast but instead of like a network we'd film from Davis? You guys could be the anchors and you could do news stories based on Davis. You could be the weather person and do weather is always hot in Davis and sports do a master's thing. I think that's a little conventional. I think the idea about Davis is gone but the other thing that we're getting into here is we have, of course, four different point of views and what we really need to do is try to combine all of it. If we want to do something artistic or musical or Davis-like or if I want to do something sociological, I think since we're, you know, it's getting late, we've had class, why don't we all go home and think about it next class session. We've got to come with something, but come with something sketched out. Alright, that sounds like a good idea. I know, we've got to really think about this. I'm getting kind of nervous and we've got to get our interpersonal act together here. I mean, you guys got to get along. Good idea. Who came with a great idea? Okay, I have an idea. Over the weekend I was flipping through some of the channels on the TV station and happened to pass by this really bizarre shot of this two women, women wrestlers. And I thought it would be fun to do a parody on women wrestlers. I kind of like it. I think that would be great. Have you ever watched them? I mean, they're amazing. We could interview them before or after this. It's so theatrical. We could get two things in. Are you talking about mud wrestlers or what are you talking about? No, no, no, not mud wrestlers. Just, I mean, same thing as regular wrestlers except they're women. During the same thing. I hate the men. I mean, what are you talking about? Are you serious? I mean, you happen to know some women wrestlers in Sacramento. You call them up. Hey, come on. I don't think this is a problem. We could go to the drama department or actually approach these women. And, you know, I'm sure that they actually approach these women. You do it. I can't believe it. Well, let's try it. What do you think, Tom? I don't like it. Okay. Did you come up with something better? Diane, we were talking on the phone and you had an idea. Okay. I had something pretty conventional. We could do a commercial. I mean, we could do something sort of Saturday night lifestyle, you know, where we do it real quick and funny and blast at people and just do simple well. Great. But funny. Cliché. Too old. It's all been done. Oh, you have a better idea. I have a better idea. Now, let's do this. Okay. Another rock video. But this time is a new song I just wrote. It's called Tupperware Party. Oh. The words are great. Tupperware Party Plastic. Do you bring lyrics? Hey, he's prepared, guys. No. This is great. So anyway. Thank you. This song is great. Tom, I love the song. Hey, I'm really glad. I love the rock video. It's my generation or something. You don't know Peter Paul and Mary's song. Okay. Let's can the rock video number. Okay. Let's just can it. I love you dearly. But we're getting nowhere. Okay. I have an idea. I have an idea. This is something kind of different. Okay. Oh, sure. I talked with a friend of mine. I said, we're working on a project and you have any ideas. And he said, why not take this opportunity? You know, we got the equipment and everything to do like a serious video on Davis as a town. Well, no, look, for people who are new here, in other words, like features of Davis, what we're seeing. And it probably could even run on cable TV or something. For instance, I know Ann Evans, the mayor, and I bet we could start. What do you guys think? I mean, I think you could really work. It's boring. I'm sorry, but it's boring. I don't know that you have the sense for these things. It just doesn't work. It just doesn't work. You know, we have a chance to do something creative and we all like take that opportunity and do it. You know, maybe something. I agree. I, you know, just an idea. I've been working with a dance company, catapult dance company here in Davis. And I've been using fabric and with a theory of movement and fabric and how they work together and it's spandex material. So it's real stretchy. And I like to utilize this tape as something a little more creative with the effects and that idea. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. You know, you guys, the more I think about it, the more I think we should do a video on us trying to decide how to do a video. That's what I mean, bro. That's what I'm gonna do. I mean, like, you are here. I'm not, I want to do that. I'm not. You know what? I want to do that. Why do you want to? Why do you want to? So they're desks at school. Desks at school. Desks at school. Hands over head for the gold. About G.I.J. G.I. Joe. Everybody's worried about G.I. Joe. About G.I. Joe.